Ganging up.

Lot of talk these days about "gang culture" which is being blamed for much of the nastiness which is going on. And yet, gangs have always been a feature of childhood life - particularly as regards boys. Think of the books we read as children - Just William, Swallows and Amazons, The Famous Five, and even more up-to-date, Harry Potter. All based on children banding together in gangs. So I can't see that gangs, per se, are the problem. I think it goes much deeper than that, and has more to do with the modern perception (which doesn't just apply to children) that all that matters is me and what I want (and by extension, my gang and what it wants), and nobody else's views or wishes or even right to exist, count for anything. I haven't got an answer to that, but I think to blame it all on gang culture misses the point.